Rhetorical histories and theories; philosophy and rhetoric; feminisms, women, and public speaking in the United States.

Currently, I focus on rhetorical theory, attending especially to how it configures women's authority in the United States from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. In particular, I feature rhetoric as a house to explore the theoretical foundation of rhetoric, accepting the given structure of ancient rhetoric as being hospitable to women and showing all the gains women have made. My research contests that showing how those gains are illusions.